Making art is the most joyous activity I participate in. I am committed to using ‘junk’ to make art. Give me something that would otherwise be thrown away and I will make something interesting to look at. Not all art is meant to simply be
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Making art is the most joyous activity I participate in. I am committed to using ‘junk’ to make art. Give me something that would otherwise be thrown away and I will make something interesting to look at. Not all art is meant to simply be beautiful. Some art is created to challenge our thinking and change our perceptions. When I view the finished piece, I am able to see the whole as being something other than the parts that were once junk. For me it’s about layers and union.

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March 5, 2013
3:15 p.m.

The art world often features show called Artist Retrospectives. Retrospective’s are shows featuring a lifetime of artworks or could be just a body of work an artist made during a particular stage or period in their artistic careers. One of the most famous might be Picasso’s Blue Period.

So why it is a retrospective a big deal? A retrospective is a show of a body of works the artists has created over their time of painting or making art. In Siskiyou County it is rare to see a retrospective or even a one artist show. There just isn’t the gallery space.

What might visitors expect to see? One should be able to look at work and learn about the artist’s style and how that style has evolved over time. Artwork, like life, should be a growing process. Few of us are the same person we were ten years ago and I’m hoping to see changes for the next ten years. The work of an artist should be expressed and evident in the work they create.

The Anne Kinkade opening at the Siskiyou Arts Museum retrospective is a terrific example of the process of an artist in 30+ paintings. Anne started out painting watercolors, but is now best known for her encaustics. Watercolor is about the flow and shape of color painted on flat paper. Encaustic is about multiple layers, color and is rich in textures. Many of the paintings between her early work and later encaustic the viewer can see how she has explored texture. Watercolors are usually painted rather quickly and encaustics are layers built upon layers taking much more time. In all of her work you can see Anne loves color!

Many artists find watercolor is wrought with surprises because this medium is often uncontrollable. There are many artists who have mastered this tricky medium Georgia O’Keefe http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/natural-and-still-life-forms.html is probably one of the most well know watercolorist. Locally, watercolorists Kim Solga, Suzanne Birch and Chris Messer who is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society are probalbly the best known.

I invite you to come see the Anne Kinkade Retrospective: 30 years of color and texture. It is a rare opportunity to see a lifetime of artwork and see the process of one of Siskiyou County much loved artist.

A reception for the artist will be March 8th 5-7pm the show runs through May 4th Link to a photo by Shery Larson of me and Anne.